Jobs at The Citizen
VACANCY- ADVERTISING SALES COORDINATOR
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Citizen has a full time, office-based vacancy in its Johannesburg (Industria West, Roodepoort) office for an Advertising Sales Coordinator, reporting to the Direct Advertising Sales Manager.
The suitable candidate will be part of a vibrant, forward-thinking team and be responsible for the effective coordination of all administrative functions pertaining to the smooth running of the advertising sales department as well as compiling a daily market share report.
Core Competencies:
Knowledge/Experience
• Matric/Grade 12 qualification or SAQA Accredited Equivalent
• Minimum 3 years’ admin and sales coordinating experience
• Computer literate (MS Office Suite – Excel & Word a must)
Skills
• Market knowledge and insight
• Good command of the English language
• Strong customer service ability
• Excellent communication skills
• Good administrative and organisational skills
• Excellent telephone manner
• Excellent typing skills
Attitude
• Ability to work under pressure
• Self-motivated
• Deadline driven
• Team player
• Multi-tasker
Other requirements:
• Solid references
• No criminal record
.
Please send suitable applications with a full CV to cvs@citizen.co.za
Reference in subject line: Sales Coordinator
Closing date for applications: 31 March 2024
Preference will be given to individuals who will add to the diversity of the organisation.
VACANCY – DIGITAL JOURNALIST
A full time, office-based opportunity for a Digital Journalist exists within our Editorial (Digital) Department, reporting to the Deputy Digital Editor of The Citizen.
Purpose of the Job:
To cover news events assigned by the Editors and to produce accurate and well-written stories daily for our publication.
Main Responsibilities:
• Plan and write fresh, accurate copy to deadline for all platforms, in co-operation with the Digital Editor and Deputy Digital Editor.
• Manage your own daily diary, and pitch unique story ideas, with creative angles and elements.
• Create, publish, and promote multimedia content, working independently as well as with the multimedia team.
• Researching of articles.
• Gathering of news from a variety of reliable sources.
• Interviewing sources.
• Covering important events/issues timeously.
• Staying up to date with privacy, contempt and defamation laws.
• Establishing and maintaining a network of contacts.
• Adhere to Code of Ethics and Editorial Standards and Practices.
• Monitor and effectively use social media to pick up news leads and story ideas, as well as promote your work.
• Upload and publish stories using the company’s CMS.
• Assist with online administrative functions as directed.
• Mentor and coach junior staff members.
• Monitor analytics constantly.
• Utilise analytics to maximise all stories and articles published on citizen.co.za.
• Adhere to Google algorithm requirements and write with SEO and Google search in mind.
• Study and adhere to The Citizen and citizen.co.za’s Voice and Style Guide.
Core Competencies Required:
Knowledge:
• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Journalism.
• Minimum 3 years’ mainstream journalism experience.
• Talent for writing, coupled with a keen interest in breaking news and current affairs and politics.
• Established network of contacts.
• Newsroom and current affairs writing experience.
• Ability to adapt to changing news and media scene, with a keen interest in new media
Skills:
• Experience using any CMS (WordPress, Joomla, etc.)
• Experience in using Adobe CS, Final Cut or other video editing tools, or audio editing tools.
• Basic Photography/videography skills
• Communication skills.
• Relationship-building skills.
Aptitude:
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Deadline driven.
• High degree of professional journalistic conduct.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team.
• Availability to work overtime and on weekends.
• Ability to work speedily but accurately.
Other Requirements:
• Valid driver’s license
• Own reliable vehicle
• Please send suitable applications with a full CV to cvs@citizen.co.za
• Reference in subject line: Digital Journalist
• Closing date for applications: 29 February 2024
• Preference will be given to individuals who will add to the diversity of the organisation.
• The Citizen reserves the right to not fill the position.
Vacancy – Digital Sales Representative
Main Responsibilities
o To robustly grow the digital advertising revenue.
o To analyse and identify business solutions for The Citizen’s website and sell it to relevant advertisers.
o To service and maintain good customer relationships with the clients and agencies.
o Create tailored solutions which meet the client’s communication objectives.
Requirements
o Minimum 4 years digital advertising sales experience.
o Minimum 4 years’ experience working with Media agencies.
o Market knowledge and insights.
o Ability to establish and maintain business relationships both with direct clients and with agencies.
o Sales or marketing Diploma (IMM/AAA) an advantage.
o Previous experience within the media industry.
o Strong digital skills which will include:
Statistics, concepts and terminology, Benefits and pricing models, Key performance metrics and laws / guidelines.
o Must understand programmatic selling.
Other Requirements
o Matric
o Valid driver’s license
o Own reliable vehicle
o Own cellphone
Please send suitable applications with a full CV to cvs@citizen.co.za
Reference in subject line: Digital Sales Representative
Closing date for applications: 29 February 2024
Preference will be given to individuals who will add to the diversity of the organisation.
The Citizen reserves the right to not fill the position.
Online Advertising Campaign Manager
Job Description
Citizen.co.za is currently looking for a highly motivated Online Advertising Campaign Manager.
The Campaign Manager coordinates the creative, trafficking and reporting for the client and is responsible and accountable for setting up, managing, optimising and troubleshooting campaigns. This position requires excellent organisational skills along with the ability to manage critical follow-up on a wide variety of issues.
The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented, self-motivated individual able to work effectively within a team environment. He or she must possess the ability to manage significant volumes of digital campaign details and issues while remaining organised and highly responsive to internal and external client needs.
Accountabilities
• Responsible for growing programmatic revenue through optimization of current integrations, vetting new vendors, optimising the current ad framework and finding net new revenue opportunities.
• Collaborate with management teams on Programmatic Strategy, revenue generating projects, new ad products, revenue analysis and weekly pacing reports.
• Work with the team to maintain documentation and accurate timeline of product rollouts and important updates that had revenue or capacity impacts.
• Provide technical ad tech expertise when QA’ing product releases and troubleshooting any issues and bugs.
• Manage the programmatic ad tech stack including Adx and any other integrations and compliance requirements.
• Work closely with the Sales team and leadership to grow and maintain programmatic deal revenue and continue to refine the deal process.
• Build, maintain and manage tactical relationships with Trading Desks, DSPs and SSPs alongside our partner management teams
• Google Ad Manager account administration and sales campaign management for direct & Google Ad Manager programmatic (Google AdX, Open Bidding, Open Auction).
Other Requirements
• Valid driver’s license
• Own reliable vehicle
• Own cell phone
• Solid employment references
• Clean criminal record
Please send suitable applications with a full CV to cvs@citizen.co.za
Reference in subject line: Campaign Manager
Closing date for applications: 31 March 2024
Preference will be given to individuals who will add to the diversity of the organisation.
VACANCY – JUNIOR DIGITAL JOURNALIST
A full time, office-based opportunity for a Junior Digital Journalist exists within our Editorial (Digital) Department, reporting to the Deputy Digital Editor of The Citizen. The Citizen’s offices are in Industria West, Roodepoort
Purpose of the Job:
To cover news events assigned by the Editors and to produce accurate and well-written stories daily for our publication.
Main Responsibilities:
• Plan and write fresh, accurate copy to deadline for all platforms, in co-operation with the Digital Editor and Deputy Digital Editor.
• Manage your own daily diary, and pitch unique story ideas, with creative angles and elements.
• Create, publish, and promote multimedia content, working independently as well as with the multimedia team.
• Researching of articles.
• Gathering of news from a variety of reliable sources.
• Interviewing sources.
• Covering important events/issues timeously.
• Staying up to date with privacy, contempt and defamation laws.
• Establishing and maintaining a network of contacts.
• Adhere to Code of Ethics and Editorial Standards and Practices.
• Monitor and effectively use social media to pick up news leads and story ideas, as well as promote your work.
• Upload and publish stories using the company’s CMS.
• Assist with online administrative functions as directed.
• Mentor and coach junior staff members.
• Monitor analytics constantly.
• Utilise analytics to maximise all stories and articles published on citizen.co.za.
• Adhere to Google algorithm requirements and write with SEO and Google search in mind.
• Study and adhere to The Citizen and citizen.co.za’s Voice and Style Guide.
Core Competencies Required:
Knowledge:
• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Journalism.
• Minimum 2 – 3 years’ mainstream journalism experience.
• Talent for writing, coupled with a keen interest in breaking news and current affairs and politics.
• Established network of contacts.
• Newsroom and current affairs writing experience.
• Ability to adapt to changing news and media scene, with a keen interest in new media
Skills:
• Experience using any CMS (WordPress, Joomla, etc.)
• Experience in using Adobe CS, Final Cut or other video editing tools, or audio editing tools.
• Basic Photography/videography skills
• Communication skills.
• Relationship-building skills.
Aptitude:
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Deadline driven.
• High degree of professional journalistic conduct.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team.
• Availability to work overtime and on weekends.
• Ability to work speedily but accurately.
Other Requirements:
• Valid driver’s license
• Own reliable vehicle
• Solid employment reference contacts
• Clear criminal record
• Please send suitable applications with a full CV to cvs@citizen.co.za
• Reference in subject line: Junior Digital Journalist
• Closing date for applications: 29 February 2024
• Preference will be given to individuals who will add to the diversity of the organisation.
• The Citizen reserves the right to not fill the position.